Its attraction is, I suspect, our desire to escape to a world of ethical ambiguity that seems quite innocent compared with the world today.
The emerging markets that they prosper in are expected to grow at 5.5% a year compared with the rich world's 1.6%, and the model is increasingly popular.
The release of the L-1 visa data makes it difficult for U.S. government officials to argue that nothing different is going on in India when compared with the rest of the world.
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Mr Pillsbury, who left business for the Senate in the 1970s, decided to work for reforms after he saw the lopsided power of conference committees and noted how muddled the legislature was compared with the corporate world.
That said, the moral atmosphere of the country is a brave new world compared with the one I grew up in.
Stay with me: As a mature, postindustrial society, the U.S. has in many ways topped out economically (population growth, consumption) compared with younger competitors on the world stage.
India's tablet computer market is still nascent compared with other parts of the world but is growing, with telecommunication companies rolling out high-speed Internet networks using third-generation and fourth-generation communication technology.
The economy of China, a key commodity consumer, is also slowing but nevertheless remains robust compared to the rest of the world, with the government last week reporting 7.6% growth in the second quarter.
Recession across the border means that remittances to Mexico fell by 4.2% between January and August compared with the same period last year, according to the World Bank.
Tough as German reunification has been, it will look like a walk in the park compared with the task of trying to suture one of the world's most backward economies onto one of the world's most advanced.
They compared the cosmic-ray flux with the proportion of the world's skies obscured by cloud, a figure that has been available from satellite photographs since 1979.
In any case, compared with hereditary castes elsewhere in the world, most British titles are not very old.
Perilous, perhaps, but nothing compared with their adventures in the art world.
Second Life opened in 2003 and is now inhabited by about 100, 000 people from around the world (still a small number compared with the video-game giants).
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What's more, Italy's dividend yield, meaning annual dividends divided by the stock price, is above 4%, compared with just 2.7% for the world overall.
Despite farmers' loud political voice, barely 4% of the French workforce works on the land today, compared with a third at the end of the second world war.
The region now makes up around 58% of the global market for gold, according to statistics gathered by the World Gold Council, compared with 35% in 1970, while the combined demand from Europe and North America has fallen from 47% to 27% in the same period.
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By the mid-1990s, 90% of the world's rhinos had disappeared, compared with the number 25 years earlier.
Writing about his work earlier this year in Virology Journal, Rice shows how chickenpox is much less common in parts of the world with high levels of UV rays compared with places where the levels are low, and why in temperate zones, the disease peaks in winter and spring, when UV rays are at their lowest.
"There are three billion mobile phone owners in the world, compared with one billion fixed internet connections, " says Mr Woodside.
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We say that the modern world got rich by (at a minimum) 1500% percent compared with 1800 not, as the sadly mistaken Accumulators say, because of capital accumulation, or exploitation of the third world, or the expansion of foreign trade.
The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article discussing how the Kardashians are an industry, with their self-promotion in many ways compared to the art world.
At 28, Dudamel is a toddler compared with his colleagues at major orchestras around the world.
True, the practice is illegal in much of the world, but the penalties for doing it are light compared with, say, dealing in illicit drugs.
Scientists at Imperial College London examined the force of ball-to-head contact in soccer because it has been rarely studied compared with other types of head contact in the world's most popular sport, such as player head-to-head contact.
After identifying specific strains of the bacteria, they compared them with a larger group of infected people and armadillos from around the world.
He compared the ex-colonies' traffic with Britain with their traffic with the rest of the world.
And as badly as Fannie and Freddie behaved recently, they were pikers when compared with the New Centuries and Lehman Brothers of the world.
There's room for more growth: credit amounted to just 50% of GDP in Brazil in 2007, compared with 169% in America, according to the World Bank.
Last year, the US created 19.9 per cent of world manufacturing output, compared with 18.6 per cent for China, with the US staying ahead despite a steep fall in factory production due to the global recession.
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